What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

  • RonSijm@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    On September 19, Ruby Central, a nonprofit organization that manages RubyGems.org, a platform for sharing Ruby code and libraries, asserted control over several GitHub repositories for Ruby Gems as well as other critical Ruby open source projects that the rest of the Ruby development community relies on.

    Uhm, so how does this happen? If some people create Ruby Gems and host them under their own github account, how would Ruby Central suddenly assert control over them?